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Cyprus readied a plan that would restructure its second-largest lender and enforce unprecedented restrictions on financial transactions, in an 11th-hour bid to unlock international aid, reopen the nation's banking system and preserve membership in the euro.

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A suicide bomber killed Syria's top Sunni cleric. At least 42 other people died as the bomber blew himself up in a Damascus mosque. The death of the 84-year-old cleric, Sheik Mohammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti, delivers a blow to the regime as he was one of the few high-ranking Sunnis who vocally supported President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite rule. An early U.S. assessment of an attack in Aleppo found no evidence chemical or biological weapons were used.

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Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan ordered his fighters to put down their weapons, withdraw from Turkish soil and move into politics, as part of a bid to end a conflict that has left 40,000 people dead.

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Obama sought to kick-start a Mideast peace effort by wooing the Israeli public and then admonishing them that they must treat Palestinians better to achieve peace.

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A Cypriot court convicted a 24-year-old member of Hezbollah of charges that he plotted terror attacks against Jews on the island.